Brant Kuithe scored two touchdowns and Micah Bernard rushed for 182 yards Saturday as No. 12 Utah opened Massive 12 Convention play with a powerful 22-19 win over No. 14 Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla.
The Utes (4-0, 1-0) gained with out beginning quarterback Cam Rising, who missed his second straight recreation with a finger harm. Backup Isaac Wilson accomplished 17 of 29 passes for 207 yards with a landing and two interceptions.
Wilson and Kuithe connected for a 45-yard scoring strike on the 6:21 mark of the fourth quarter to offer Utah a 22-3 lead that appeared insurmountable. However the Cowboys (3-1, 0-1) made a recreation of it as Alan Bowman related on a 28-yard landing move to Brennan Presley, then a 9-yarder to Rashod Owens with 1:47 left to chop the deficit to 3.
Nonetheless, the Utes had been in a position to kill the remaining time as Bernard moved the chains with a 4-yard run on Third-and-3 with 48 seconds on the clock. They owned a 456-285 benefit in whole yardage and possessed the ball for greater than 42 minutes.
Bowman hit 16 of 33 passes for 206 yards, tossing a pair of interceptions to associate with the 2 TD passes . Backup Garrett Rangel, who performed a great chunk of the second half, was 3 of 11 for 31 yards.
With temperatures hovering to 100 levels at kickoff, Oklahoma State initiated scoring on the 8:47 mark of the primary quarter as Logan Ward toed a 23-yard subject objective to cap a 62-yard drive. That was it for the Cowboys’ assault till late within the recreation.
Utah methodically chewed up yardage and clock for many of the recreation’s the rest. Cole Becker tied the sport with a 43-yard subject objective to begin the second quarter and Kuithe gave it the lead for good with a 1-yard landing plunge with 7:25 left within the half, capping a drive that lasted practically 6 ½ minutes.
Becker upped the result in 16-3 by drilling subject targets of 38 and 44 yards, the second coming with 11:29 remaining within the recreation.
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